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No, you get one last visit before the end.

Courtesy of ABC News:"Though women committed roughly 10 percent of murders between 1976 and 2005, they were involved in nearly 35 percent of murders of intimate partners and nearly 30 percent of murders of where the victim was another family member, according to the Justice Department."

Created by the same people who did Murder, She Wrote, Ellery Queen taught them the lesson that tough mysteries get you canceled after one season. MSW proved that easy-to-solve mysteries will go twelve seasons and some sequel movies. They were very conscious of the ratings struggles of Ellery...

That's funny, Matt. I remember noticing the same thing. Since it's very unlikely that there were table reads on a show like that, I think the director bears the ultimate fault there. (I just looked and it was Vince McEveety. After forty years of excellent TV directing, I'll let him slide on this...

I agree with everything you've cited about the series after the seventh season. Executive producer Peter S. Fischer and story editor/producer Robert Van Scoyk left at that point and it made a big difference to the show. Robert Swanson stayed for a year or two, but was not in charge. There are...

Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law. Yes, I recall the flashbacks now that you mention them. They were from the pilot. Remember finding Brian Keith dead in the Sherlock Holmes costume? The climactic scene by the pool between Jessica and the murderer where she, and we, fear for her safety but the...

Preston Giles (played by Arthur Hill) was...involved...in the first murder Jessica ever solved. His appearance in The Return of Preston Giles revisits their relationship, as well as providing the contrast Matt mentions. I always feel that the pilot and the first couple of episodes reflect the...

He was a Military Policeman in the US Army.

Yes, that's the idea. But it makes it a lot harder to find TV shows that want to get you to watch...

As satirized by the last episode of the series, "Death By Demographics," MSW was still doing well in the total aggregate ratings, but its 18-49 demographics (which is what sets advertising rates) had gone way down over the years. Early on, the show upended industry expectations by having strong...

She was a character actress in the movies from the 40s through the 60s, and then became a Broadway musical leading lady in the late 60s and the 70s. When the series was pitched to CBS, it was proposed with the understanding that Jean Stapleton would play the lead. Ms. Stapleton withdrew from the...

It was aired on CBS as a 90-minute episode. The producers were looking ahead to a possible spinoff for Orbach's character and the additional running time allowed them to give him more character moments in the show. It seemed to work, as CBS picked up The Law and Harry McGraw for the following...

Magnum, P. I. was never a personal favorite and it was more popular than I think it deserved, but Novel Connection is not the fairest way to judge the series or Tom Selleck. The crossover was a terrible idea; the two shows were entirely dissimilar in style and tone, and Magnum was forced to...

She does seem to draw the line at anything permanent, but there are lots of implications about the nature of her relationship with Seth Hazlitt (notice the times Amos comes looking for him at her house, even first thing in the morning). She also seems quite tempted by Arthur Hill in the pilot...

As I understand it, there was some serious negotiating over which show got to have the concluding episode, as it was considered the more desirable spot. I don't know whether it was the studio or the network that made the final decision.

They aired the same week. Part 1 of the story aired on Magnum, P. I. and Part 2 aired on Murder, She Wrote. If you watch Novel Connection first and then Magnum on Ice, you will be seeing them in the same way they aired in the 1986-1987 season.

I just finished executive producer Peter S. Fischer's memoir and he had almost nothing but enormous and unqualified praise for Ms. Lansbury. He himself wondered about her motivation for making that deal for fewer episodes in the sixth and seventh seasons because, according to him, her deal had...

In the sixth and seventh seasons, Angela Lansbury was contractually permitted to make only brief appearances in several episodes. The producers generally made those into backdoor pilots, none of which sold.

There were always about five shows a year in Cabot Cove, give or take one. The implicit running joke of Cabot Cove being America's most dangerous town would have gone from cute to outrageous if they had more murders than that each year. Windom appeared in all those episodes except for the first...

Probably my favorite episode of the series.